A citizen’s peace lobby
CounterPunch
by Michael Foley
03/29/07
Tina Richards has an idea. Tina is the mother of a Marine scheduled for his third tour of duty in Iraq who took on Rep. David Obey (Dem., Wisconsin) and the Democratic leadership over funding for the war. Though her home is Missouri, she’s in the process of moving to the Washington, D.C. area to keep up the fight to end the war. Her idea is simple. Bring 10,000 concerned citizens to Washington this summer to lobby their Congressional representatives and counter the ten thousand paid lobbyists who ensure that ours is the most lavishly financed and most seriously immune to change legislature in the world...
http://www.counterpunch.org/foley03292007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tina+Richards
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Obey
by Michael Foley
03/29/07
Tina Richards has an idea. Tina is the mother of a Marine scheduled for his third tour of duty in Iraq who took on Rep. David Obey (Dem., Wisconsin) and the Democratic leadership over funding for the war. Though her home is Missouri, she’s in the process of moving to the Washington, D.C. area to keep up the fight to end the war. Her idea is simple. Bring 10,000 concerned citizens to Washington this summer to lobby their Congressional representatives and counter the ten thousand paid lobbyists who ensure that ours is the most lavishly financed and most seriously immune to change legislature in the world...
http://www.counterpunch.org/foley03292007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tina+Richards
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Obey
rudkla - 30. Mär, 14:16
